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Sicily

Italy · 8 Nov 2020 Elderly people mocked and mistreated in Catania nursing home Italian police are investigating a serious case of mistreatment of elderly residing in the Villa San Camillo retirement home in Aci Sant'Antonio.… Italy · 18 Oct 2020 Series of earth tremors rock Enna in Sicily A series of earth tremors were recorded in Sicily, in the province of Enna according to the Italian National Institute of Geophysics… Italy · 7 Oct 2020 Fake death insurance fraud leads to six arrests in Palermo Italian police on Wednesday arrested six people in Palermo on charges of filing bogus life insurance claims after falsifying documents to show… Italy · 27 Sep 2020 Italian coast-guard official dies while saving two boys at sea in Milazzo, Sicily The lifeless body of Aurelio Visalli, 40, an officer of the Port Authority of Milazzo, who drowned after saving two young men,… Italy · 20 Sep 2020 Big wedding in Sicily fuels coronavirus spread The Sicilian town of Corleone has ordered schools closed and a limited lockdown after a spate of coronavirus infections were tied to… Italy · 22 Aug 2020 Viviana Parisi and Gioele case confirmed as a murder-suicide by scientific police Viviana Parisi killed her four-year-old son Gioele and after climbing an electricity pylon, threw herself into the void, from a height of… Italy · 22 Aug 2020 Viviana neither killed her self nor my son – Husband The husband of a 43-year-old DJ found dead near Messina after a car crash with her four-year-old son said Friday she had… Italy · 15 Aug 2020 Italian woman who returned to Palermo from Malta with Covid-19 in serious condition The coronavirus pandemic in Malta continues to dominate the Italian headlines as Italian media reported that a woman who returned to Palermo… Italy · 12 Aug 2020 Search for missing 4-yr-old son of dead woman continues in Sicily Rescue workers on Wednesday were continuing for the ninth consecutive day a huge search for the missing four-year-old son of a woman… Italy · 9 Aug 2020 Mystery on death of a mother and disappearance of son in Sicily The searches of Gioele, 4 years old, the son of Viviana Parisi, 43 years old, the DJ found dead in Caronia, who… Italy · 26 Jul 2020 Sicily confirmed as new the starting point for Giro D’ Italia Sicily has been confirmed as the replacement start for this year’s Giro d’Italia, after initial plans to begin the race in Hungary… Italy · 15 Jul 2020 Two die as heavy thunderstorms hit Palermo, Sicily The Sicilian island was hit with heavy thunderstorms. The most dramatic situation occurred in Palermo where a flood hit the city on…